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Blogging a project – The big picture 1 Jan 2011 | 08:30 pm
A dive into needs and wants and whys. Also see: Introduction – Lets make a bug tracker! Background – It’s not really a bug tracker! Time to get to some use cases, requirements, needs, wants, an...
Blogging a project – Background 29 Dec 2010 | 05:35 am
In the introduction I covered the concept of blogging a new project from beginning to end. The reason for the vagueness of ‘project’ and ‘experiment’ is because I have not even decided on a name for t...
A Grand Experiment 28 Dec 2010 | 09:51 pm
Ok, maybe ‘grand’ is a bit much. For a long time now I have wanted to blog a project. That is blog the progress of working on a project from initial concept all the way through to the completed result...
POE – Only Pain 19 Nov 2009 | 10:29 pm
Very busy, but stumbled across something which made me cry with joy (really). I have noticed that one of my favorite groups of all time POE has been featured in a some commercials recently (Iron Chef...
Picnic Table: Part 0, wood issues 14 Jun 2009 | 08:06 pm
I am planning on building a picnic table, and to build it with my son. I have been looking for plans for one that I like for quite some time. All have similar problems, in that they are too small, or ...
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Season 2!! 22 May 2009 | 02:33 pm
I love anime. Not your normal anime. 99% of what hits the US and 99% of what ends up on US TV is utter crap. The exceptions are “Ghost in the Shell”, and some of the very old stuff from my childhood (...
Trademarks [by them selves] are NOT a Menace to Open Source 10 May 2009 | 07:06 pm
I should be asleep, but I accidentally came across this article calling Trademarks a hidden menace to Open Souce. At it’s heart I agree that Trademark law is not properly understood by the community a...
PyCon 2009 Voting Raw Data 1 Apr 2009 | 05:00 pm
This year we tried something new to get feedback from attendees this year. After a talk you would put little plastic bingo chips into one of three buckets to vote. We also have a talk interest system ...
PyCon Progress Report 20 Mar 2009 | 12:52 am
PyCon is less than a week away. Where has the time gone? Registration Online registration is closed. The full count is not determined yet (due to sponsor passes, financial aid, and a few minor issue...
HELP!!!! 19 Mar 2009 | 09:13 pm
Ok, I just put up a post on the PyCon blog asking for help, and I have to say I dropped the ball here. I could come up with a number of excuses, but the truth is I should have gotten out a call for vo...
